Charity Dean
The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Charity Dean reads as The Disruptor because she refused to petition slow institutions to move faster and built the alternative instead. Having diagnosed the structural gap between government response speed and pathogen speed, she left her post as a California public health authority to co-found the Public Health Company, translating that diagnosis into a commercial technology solution. Crossing institutional boundaries without waiting for bureaucratic permission, she created a market category where none existed.
“Unless we have a technology platform that can move faster than the pathogen, we will never be prepared. That's what motivated me to launch the Public Health Company.”
“I knew that Silicon Valley technology could revolutionize infectious disease risk management, and that the tools, the way that I thought about risk and the differential diagnosis, could be revolutionized by tech.”
“We are building those solutions in technology to democratize access to risk management of infectious disease, so that private sector businesses have that kind of expertise at their fingertips.”
Masters in Business: “Charity Dean on the Lessons of Covid-19”
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